Moscow and Kiev have swapped 115 troops each in a prisoner exchange, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
More than a hundred Russian troops captured by Ukraine during its incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, have been freed, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
As part of the exchange, Moscow handed over 115 Ukrainian prisoners of war to Kiev and received 115 Russian soldiers in return, the ministry announced in a statement on Saturday.
The released Russian servicemen are currently in Belarus, where they are being provided with all the necessary psychological and medical assistance, as well as with the means to contact their relatives, it said.
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